# ID this TV show with little kids driving miniature cars

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 14, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-tv-show-with-little-kids-driving-miniature-cars/103641 "2002-04-14T23:46:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![non-native](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@non-native](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/non-native)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-tv-show-with-little-kids-driving-miniature-cars/103641/1 "2002-04-14T23:46:20Z")

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I only have a very vague memory of this show. Like it says on the subject, it involved little kids (5~9 year olds maybe?) who drove around miniature cars and went out on dates with each other. I think there was a black kid who didn’t have a car, but eventually got one. If i remember correctly he was the protagonist and nicest one.  
Does anyone remember this show? I think it was around the late 80s that it was on. I think.

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**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-tv-show-with-little-kids-driving-miniature-cars/103641/2 "2002-04-14T23:58:22Z")

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I vaguely remember an _Our Gang Comedy_ episode that loosely fits your discription but that dates scores of years before you are discribing.

And I am sure you would remember Buckwheat, Spanky, Alfalfa, et al.

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**Author:** ![non-native](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@non-native](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/non-native)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-tv-show-with-little-kids-driving-miniature-cars/103641/3 "2002-04-15T04:28:20Z")

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Nah, it was in color. Plus, i think i would’ve noticed.

Thanks anyways.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-tv-show-with-little-kids-driving-miniature-cars/103641/4 "2002-04-15T04:58:48Z")

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You mayyyyy be thinking of _Bugsy Malone_.

It was a 70’s movie with Scott Baio and Jodie Foster, set in 1940’s Chicago gangsterland. Guns were cream-pie shooters, and cars wer pedal-powered.

Very very cool movie.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-tv-show-with-little-kids-driving-miniature-cars/103641/5 "2002-04-15T12:39:11Z")

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There was a Little Rascals movie that was released in 1994 and used the same plot (and shots) from the original Our Gang short.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-tv-show-with-little-kids-driving-miniature-cars/103641/6 "2002-04-15T14:10:34Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by GuanoLad \*  
> \*\*You mayyyyy be thinking of _Bugsy Malone_.
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> It was a 70’s movie with Scott Baio and Jodie Foster, set in 1940’s Chicago gangsterland. Guns were cream-pie shooters, and cars wer pedal-powered.
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> Very very cool movie. \*\*

[nitpick]  
The movie was set in the Prohibition-era. “Down-and-out” would certainly have been out of place in the Forties.  
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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-tv-show-with-little-kids-driving-miniature-cars/103641/7 "2002-04-16T07:09:38Z")

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I hesitated in putting that date in there. I don’t know my US history very well. Thanks for the correction.